How martial arts regulate one's physique

The Function of Taijiquan

The Modern Chinese Dictionary explains the word taijiquan in this way: "Taijiquan, a traditional boxing art, has many schools of thought and is widely circulated, and its movements are soft and slow, which can be used for both technical combat and the enhancement of health and prevention of disease."

Today's society is practicing taijiquan more and more people, the popularity of other types of boxing is far less. Throughout, insight, the reason for this is mainly two aspects. One is that taijiquan is slow, loose and quiet, round and interesting, young and old, strong and weak can practice and adapt to a wide range. The second is that the effect is comprehensive, summarized in four major effects: namely, the efficacy of eliminating diseases and strengthening the body; the efficacy of fighting against violence; the efficacy of expanding the mind; and the efficacy of developing wisdom.

2.2 Taijiquan health

Taijiquan is a kind of anti-aging and health-care movement created and gradually developed by our ancestors in long-term life practice. Modern experimental research has proved that it can improve the human body's motor organs, cardiovascular, respiratory, endocrine, digestive, neurological and other systemic functions; and has the effect of lowering blood lipids, improving the immune function of the body and resisting old age deficiency. In this regard, we have a preliminary discussion on the health care of taijiquan.

2.2.1 The principle of Taijiquan health care

(1) life is movement Taijiquan is a sport, with the physical movement of the external performance, and therefore has the same fitness function of other sports. 300 BC, the ancient Greek great thinker Aristotle has a "life in motion" quote, a profound allegory of the body movement on the important role of human health. Various physiological functions of the human body have the objective law of "exhaustion and exhaustion", to a certain extent, the more the human body is used, the more developed. To protect health and prolong life, fundamentally, not by "pampered" lifestyle, not by eating well, delicious food, and not to be intoxicated by magic pills, but by engaging in certain physical activities and physical exercise. Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty, said, "It is difficult to live a long life without knowing the art of nourishing the nature of the long service bait." Yan Yuan, a scholar of the Qing Dynasty, said: "Nutrition is not good at practicing movement, and not sleepy and tired, increasingly strong." He also said, "A body that moves is a strong body. "Totally out of the" life in motion "reason.

Taijiquan as a sport, the reason for health care functions, the mystery lies in the "a move without moving" physical activity, can give the tissues and organs of a certain intensity and amount of stimulation, stimulation and promotion of the body in physiology, biochemistry, and morphology and structure of a series of adaptive changes, so that the physical fitness towards the enhancement of the direction of transformation and development. The physical activity can stimulate and promote a series of adaptive changes in physiology, biochemistry and morphological structure of the body, so that the physical fitness can be transformed and developed towards strengthening. For the elderly, it can delay the degenerative changes in the structure and function of the body's tissues and organs, and can effectively play a fitness, healing, and slowing down the role of aging.

In the ancient and modern Chinese and foreign celebrities, the benefits of exercise and longevity are numerous. In the past, Hua Tuo's disciple Wu Pu, the king of medicine Sun Simiao, British opera singer Bernard Shaw, "China's king of longevity" Gong Lai Fa and "China's longevity after the" Kong Ying are benefited from this.

(2) Shu meridian activation

Meridian theory that the meridians are composed of meridians and collaterals. Meridian theory has traditionally been the theoretical basis for the treatment of disease in Chinese medicine, massage, acupuncture and so on. The Spiritual Pivot. Meridians" said: "the meridians, so can determine life and death, deal with all kinds of diseases, adjusting the real and virtual, can not be blocked." Therefore, through the meridians has always been an important theoretical basis for guiding the Chinese medical disease and health care.

Taijiquan's unique way of practicing can be conducive to the activation of the meridians. First of all, taijiquan emphasizes the relaxation of the whole body, which can weaken, transfer and overcome the seven emotional stimuli that cause internal injuries and diseases, and is conducive to the dredging of the meridians. Secondly, Taijiquan's whole-body light, slow, soft and appropriate movement will make the body warm and cozy, which can increase the speed and strength of meridian conduction, which is conducive to the operation of pulse and qi in the whole body, maintain and protect the normal function of the body, and increase the ability of resisting diseases and evils and self-repairing. Furthermore, taijiquan movement, the waist gap of the left and right draw support, rotating waist and spine, limbs of the flexion and extension, rotation, spreading the winding movement, back to the body more than 300 different acupuncture points to produce different pulling, wringing and squeezing and pressing and moistening effect. This actually plays a role in the effectiveness of acupuncture.

(3) abdominal breathing

The art of tui na, rumored to be the Taoist practice of health. Tuna, so that the belly of the turbid gas, from the mouth to breathe out, and from the nose to inhale fresh gas. This art is actually abdominal breathing exercise, called "practice gas" in ancient times, with the regulation of nerves, massage the internal organs, promote digestion, smooth blood flow, increase lung capacity and promote the role of metabolism.

Taijiquan draws on the art of vomiting, using abdominal breathing. Taijiquan abdominal breathing, not only in the "deep" on the word, and to do fine, even, slow, long, and also with the combination of action, "fist breathing", that is, the use of a combined call (for storage) open inhalation (for the hair) or combined inhalation (for the virtual) open call (for the hair) breathing method. The method of breathing is the same as that of the fist.

(4) regulate the psychological

The theory of Chinese medicine is that the disease-causing factors are mainly abnormalities in the external environment and changes in the internal environment.

The abnormality of the external environment refers to the changes of the six elements (wind, cold, summer, heat, dryness, humidity), which are harmful to human health. The "Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" places special emphasis on the harmony between man and heaven. The "unity of heaven and man" should be the first element of health care. This effect is pursued by practicing three nines in winter and three volts in summer. Changes in the internal environment refer to changes in the "seven emotions" (joy, anger, anxiety, thoughts, sadness, fear, and shock). Seven emotions is the brain to the objective external things of the emotional reflection, in general is harmless, but too strong or persistent, more than the body's tolerance limit, will produce a variety of diseases. As early as two thousand years ago, the Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine pointed out, "Sorrow and sadness 'will move the heart, and if the heart is moved, all five organs will be shaken." "Happiness and anger are not in check, then injury to the viscera, injury to the viscera, the disease starts."

Taijiquan is very concerned about the unity of heaven and man, the unity of form and spirit health art. Taijiquan's combination of static and dynamic, static and static, and although the movement is static, so that taijiquan is more in line with the fitness principle of moderate movement; at the same time, taijiquan's unique static intention, so that the heart is more likely to enter the static, which can effectively block excessive hyperactivity and fiery seven emotions on the heart of the blood of the interference and chaotic effects, protect the "spirit", and properly play its function of regulation and control of human health. The function of regulating the health of the human body is normalized. And it is beneficial to the practitioner to obtain and maintain a healthy state of mind.

2.2.2 Taijiquan fitness characteristics

(1) Taijiquan exercise is all-round

Taijiquan fitness mechanism is comprehensive and complex. It can comprehensively improve the overall functional state of human beings, strengthen the vitality of human essence, gas and spirit, and improve the overall quality of human beings. Taijiquan internal and external training, not only to make the skin, flesh, sinews, bones get exercise, so that people's brain power, will get exercise, it also use Taiji internal massage internal organs, stimulate the function of the internal organs, regulate and control the functional activities of the internal organs, effectively improve the functional activities of the internal organs, effectively improve the whole body's functional state and metabolism,

Slow down the age of the internal organs, so that the body to achieve the state of rehabilitation, and then achieve longevity!

Taijiquan is a set of systematic, from the inside out are guided by objective laws, reduce bad habits, establish a reasonable lifestyle exercise.

(2) Taijiquan exercise purposefulness

Each person's physical quality is different, the disease suffered from different diseases, the degree of disease is different, the harm caused by the human body is also different, so the exercise method is also different. Taijiquan can not only enhance the overall function of the human body in an all-round way, but also target the exercise of a certain system of diseases through the training of a single posture or the use of internal organ massage in Taijiquan internal martial arts, so as to meet the different needs of each person's physique.

(3) The exercise method of Taijiquan is a model of scientific fitness

There are no fewer than ten thousand kinds of exercise methods, but Taijiquan is characterized by its scientific and systematic nature. The fitness concept of Taijiquan is to follow nature, emphasizing the unity of God and action, and focusing on internal refining. The concept of refining the five internal organs breaks through the misconceptions of previous exercises and really falls into the substantive part of the exercise, which is the core of scientific exercise. Taijiquan is in line with the physiological law of human body from inside to outside in terms of exercise method. After more than six hundred years of practice, taijiquan exercise method is a model of scientific fitness.